From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755238AbaAHIUL (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 03:20:11 -0500 Received: from e36.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.154]:49988 "EHLO e36.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754539AbaAHIUI (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 03:20:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:20:01 +0800 From: Han Pingtian To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michal Hocko , Dave Hansen , Andrea Arcangeli , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [RFC] mm: show message when updating min_free_kbytes in thp Message-ID: <20140108082000.GJ4106@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michal Hocko , Dave Hansen , Andrea Arcangeli , Mel Gorman , Andrew Morton , linux-mm@kvack.org References: <20140101002935.GA15683@localhost.localdomain> <52C5AA61.8060701@intel.com> <20140103033303.GB4106@localhost.localdomain> <52C6FED2.7070700@intel.com> <20140105003501.GC4106@localhost.localdomain> <20140106164604.GC27602@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140106164604.GC27602@dhcp22.suse.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14010808-3532-0000-0000-0000048AEB6C Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 05:46:04PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Sun 05-01-14 08:35:01, Han Pingtian wrote: > [...] > > From f4d085a880dfae7638b33c242554efb0afc0852b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > > From: Han Pingtian > > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 11:10:49 +0800 > > Subject: [PATCH] mm: show message when raising min_free_kbytes in THP > > > > min_free_kbytes may be raised during THP's initialization. Sometimes, > > this will change the value being set by user. Showing message will > > clarify this confusion. > > I do not have anything against informing about changing value > set by user but this will inform also when the default value is > updated. Is this what you want? Don't you want to check against > user_min_free_kbytes? (0 if not set by user) > To use user_min_free_kbytes in mm/huge_memory.c, we need a extern int user_min_free_kbytes; in somewhere? Where should we put it? I guess it is mm/internal.h, right? Thanks.